Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

Vietnam is likely to have to import 300,000 tonnes of gasoline in the near future to meet the domestic demand as the Dung Quat oil refinery will be fully shut down for inspection for two to three weeks from March 23, the online newspaper Tuoitre reported on March 22, citing Nguyen Hoai Giang, general director of Binh Son Refinery and PetroChemical Co., the company that runs the plant.

Hanoi - Vietnam's sole oil refinery may soon exhaust its petrol storage capacity and be forced to cut back production, the refinery's chairman said Friday.

Representative of Russia-based TellOil Group, main investor of Vung Ro Oil Refinery project revealed yesterday that at present, the company has pushed up designing works and contractor selection in order to officially kick off the project in 2011.

The license for construction of the Can Tho Oil Refinery may be withdrawn, if its investors fail to prove they have adequate funds to complete the project by the end of June.

Dung Quat Refinery, Vietnam's first oil processing plant, is scheduled to process 5.2 million metric tons of crude oil this year, an official with the operator of the plant said Wednesday.

Vietnam opens its first oil refinery today, overcoming the withdrawal of foreign partners including Total SA, and international criticism that the $3 billion project is in the wrong place and won’t boost the economy.

Petroleum products from Vietnam's first refinery will be ready for sale from tomorrow, the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam said Tuesday.

BP Plc., Europe’s second-biggest oil company, has signed an agreement with two units of Vietnam Oil & Gas Group, or PetroVietnam, to supply crude to the country’s first refinery at Dung Quat.

Hanoi - Vietnam's first oil refinery in Dung Quat has received its first batch of crude oil in preparation for a test run scheduled for early next year, state run media said Monday.

Vietnam's president and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez hailed their leftist ties ahead of signing accords here Thursday, during the first visit by a head of state from the communist nation.

HANOI - Petrovietnam plans to import 52,500 tonnes of diesel next month to test run the country's first refinery, the 140,000-bpd Dung Quat plant, which is expected to come onstream next February, the government said.

State-owned Vietnam Oil & Gas Co., or PetroVietnam, is asking the government to allow it to sell shares in the country's first refinery plant, which is expected to start operating in early 2009, state media reported Monday, citing a senior PetroVietnam official.

THANH HOA - Ground was broken for a giant oil refinery in Thanh Hoa province in Vietnam. The massive plant will be built by Petrovietnam and three foreign partners. Construction is set to begin within a month after the partners signed an agreement on April 7.